Of course we know it was, but I’m talking “officially” here. As Ed Morrissey notes, finding the answer to that question has been quite a ride. First, Team Obama insisted at the beginning that his Berlin speech wasn’t political. Then, when explaining why he blew off the troops at Landstuhl, the campaign said the visit wouldn’t be appropriate because he’s in the middle of campaigning. During his actual speech, however, he told the German people that he was there not as a candidate but as an American.

Now Team Obama has moved on to using the event to raise money.

Shortly after 6 pm Central time — just a few hours after Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, gave his speech in Berlin, which his campaign insisted was not political — his campaign manager, David Plouffe, sent out a fundraising solicitation using the speech to raise campaign cash.

“As you may have heard, Barack has been in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia this week,” reads the email, with a big red “DONATE” sign. “Today, he spoke in Berlin, Germany. In a city where a wall once divided the free from the oppressed, he talked about tearing down the walls that divide all peoples so we can address our common problems — the threats of terrorism and nuclear weapons, global warming and genocide, AIDS and poverty. Watch Barack’s historic speech and share it with your friends.”

The campaign can’t quite seem to make up its mind as to exactly what the speech was.